6 Works by onlyslightlyhyperbolic
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When Arthur returns, he barely understands what's happening. First he'd been dead, and now he isn't. Alive, somewhere he doesn't recognize, with a Merlin who isn't quite the man he remembers. But it's Merlin, and that's as good a place to start as any.
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“Will you tell me about what it is that haunts you?” Thomas asks, as forward as ever when shepherding James through his own recalcitrance. There’s no surprise in this, considering that the only things that James has not yet shared are the parts of his history that spook him from the darkness within which he keeps them.
The parts that cannot be spoken without also speaking of John Silver.
A name that is a ghost in his blood; a shadow that breathes alongside him and tethers part of him to the shadows. To expose him now, even to Thomas, may at last serve to banish that ghost to somewhere James cannot follow. Somewhere he’s desired to leave Silver since the moment everything ended, but cannot. Will not. The echo of him is as perplexing and infuriating as the man himself.
And damn it all, James misses him.
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- Part 2 of approach thy grave
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does it eat you alive in the dead of the night? by onlyslightlyhyperbolic
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
02 May 2025
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Several years ago, Borsalino had watched as a dear friend shepherded a man to the end of his life.
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If anyone had told Wei Ying a few days ago that he'd get to go on a thrilling road trip with the
unrequitedlove of his life, but only after kidnapping an innocent toddler, he would have laughed himself to death.And, yet. Here he is. Doing exactly that.
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James finds it remarkable, how gathering his thoughts in this moment is a lot like trying to finesse his crew back from a mutiny. Tense anticipation knots his shoulders. Control dances neatly from between his fingers, every confession he wishes to make staying just out of reach yet watching him with demanding eyes.
It's hard to know which confessions to watch back; which will turn on him and become the noose with which he hangs. Which ones will put the lever in Thomas' hands. Which may convince him to pull it.
Thomas had been willing to pardon pirates, all those years ago. Would he pardon a monster, surrendered at his feet?
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- Part 1 of approach thy grave
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"When you were sinking to the bottom of the sea, who do you imagine it was who dragged you onto that beach?"
Flint sits in a tiny boat on a windless stretch of sea and wonders if whatever he will be left with in the end will have been worth it. Silver sits behind him, and is more help than he might think.